talkie
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talkie
- /ˈtɔːki/
Rhymes with -ɔːki
Where it comes from
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
noun talkies
- A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film. On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
- A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung. "[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.
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noun movie with sound
| Français | film parlant |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Tonfilm |
Talk about this word "talkie." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/talkie. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. talkie. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/talkie "talkie." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/talkie.Cite this
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title = {talkie},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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